Corporations are not people, says Mountain View, Calif., city council
Source: Mountain View Voice
The City Council on Tuesday passed a resolution in support of efforts to amend the U.S. Constitution to abolish "corporate personhood."
Mayor Mike Kasperzak introduced the resolution, which addresses the Supreme Court's 2010 "Citizens United" decision, which has allowed "unlimited corporate spending to influence elections" through the creation of political action committees known as SuperPACs, Kasperzak said.
"The serious consequences of the Supreme Court's decision have been revealed by the farcical and entirely legal million-dollar plus SuperPAC created by comedian Stephen Colbert," Kasperzak wrote in his pitch to the City Council. "It is clear that our Supreme Court got it wrong this time."
The council's Libertarian members, Tom Means and John Inks, were the only members to not support the resolution, with Inks voting no and Means abstaining after raising questions about whether it was an appropriate matter for the council to weigh in on.
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I never knew this was up for a vote!
